Table of Contents: July 2023

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Volume 119, Number 6 - July 2023

The Quality Issue

Driving the Quality Train (pages 16-21)
TMA physicians steer quality issues, from measure development to advocating for standardization. By Emma Freer

Mastering Quality Reporting (pages 22-25)
Understanding the maze of quality reporting pathways may help ease the challenge. By Alisa Pierce

Quality of Life (pages 26-29)
Pay-for-quality programs increasingly address nonmedical drivers of health. By Sean Price

Other News: 

Healthy Conclusions (pages 30-33)
TMA’s COVID-19 Task Force has sunset, but not before creating a precedent for responding to public health emergencies. By Sean Price

Stable or Critical? (pages 34-38)
Emergency medicine has become less popular on Match Day. What does this mean for the specialty?  By Sean Price

Recruitment After COVID (pages 40-42)
With help from TMA, staffing challenges provide an opportunity for practices to grow and become more business savvy. By Alisa Pierce

Also in this issue: 

04 Rounds
10 TexMed 2023
44 TMA Moment in Time: Hurricane Harvey Response

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Incoming TMA President Ray Callas, MD's 26 years of experience as a member have prepared him to lead the association at a time when Texas physicians face economic challenges and when the state simultaneously faces a record influx of new physicians amid a workforce shortage. Both, he says, are opportunities that put organized medicine in a unique position to offer feasible solutions. TMA also debuts its newest leadership development program for physicians at every career stage, and the TMA Alliance’s outgoing and incoming presidents share their passion for building and bonding the Family of Medicine. Plus, learn how TMA’s Physician Payment Resources Center communicates with payers on behalf of physicians’ best interests.

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